4/2 = 2
Some fractions are really whole numbers in disguise. Let's see how four halves equals two.
Here's one whole bar split into two halves. Two halves make one whole.
Here's a second whole bar, also split into two halves.
Together we have four halves shaded in.
We can write four halves as the fraction four over two.
The bottom number, two, says each whole is split into two pieces.
Now let's find four halves on a number line that goes past one.
We hop one half at a time: one half, two halves, three halves, four halves.
Four halves lands right on the number two.
So four halves equals two. Some fractions are whole numbers in disguise!